In our new webcast series “The Voice of Experience”, Dan Jacobs interviews Arnold Modell about his life and contributions to psychoanalysis. Arnold Modell, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a Clinical Professor of Social Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of five important books: Object Love and Reality: An Introduction to a Psychoanalytic Theory of...

On Monday, December 4th, BPSI’s Andrew S. Berry will be joined by Captain Nate Emery, MS, who served 22 years in the Marine Corps, to discuss a psychoanalytic approach to treating veterans. You can register for the workshop here. Continuing education credits will be available for clinicians. by Andrew S. Berry, PhD, PsyD, ABPP “The First Step” I have worked with combat veterans for a while, mostly Marines and Navy...

My Psychoanalytic Journey Through Musical Theater Cary Friedman, MD The following piece was originally printed in the Spring/Summer 2017 edition of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. When I was four years old, I am told, I performed the song “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady for family and friends with a perfect cockney accent. As I grew older, however, and shyness set in (or neurotic conflicts emerged),...

The following piece, written by BPSI member Dr. Leonard Glass, was originally published by the Boston Globe on July 28th, 2017. We’d like extend our gratitude to Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor of the Opinion section, for allowing us to re-post the article here in its entirety. Leonard Glass, MD Not long ago the Goldwater Rule was an answer in a trivia game, and one almost exclusively played by psychiatrists....

In our new webcast series “The Voice of Experience”, Dan Jacobs asks Malkah Notman about women in psychoanalysis. Malkah T. Notman, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. This conversation was recorded on February 10, 2017, in the BPSI Library. A more detailed interview of Dr. Notman had been produced earlier by...

Upcoming Events

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018, Nathan Kravis will visit BPSI to talk about his new book On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud (MIT Press, 2017). About the Author: Nathan Kravis is[...]